The broadcaster said government control over its budget could influence or be seen to influence its editorial independence.
Michael Ebeid,who left SBS last month,called for wholesale changes to the way directors of both broadcasters are chosen.
The broadcaster’s chairman role could see a high-profile media boss or a top lawyer taking the reins,with headhunters making approaches in recent weeks.
Two very strange things have happened at our beloved public broadcaster while we’ve been distracted by leadership shenanigans.
ABC directors are distancing themselves from former managing director Michelle Guthrie's allegations ex-chairman Justin Milne inappropriately touched her at a board meeting dinner.
The wider significance of Michelle Guthrie stepping into the #MeToo camp,and what good it may do to help women across the workforce,is yet to be discerned.
Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into the Michelle Guthrie sacking brought forth the surprising claim from the former ABC managing director that her former Chairman,Justin Milne had touched her “inappropriately’”. But what makes a touch inappropriate?
The call by the union representing journalists comes after Monday night's Four Corners program into the broadcaster's recent leadership crisis.
Four Corners went kaboom with allegations of"inappropriate touching"by sacked ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie against former ABC chairman Justin Milne. Then Q&A tried to navigate the debris.
"I never,ever acted inappropriately with Michelle or with any other woman in the workplace or any other woman at all."
Former ABC chairman Justin Milne claims sacked managing director Michelle Guthrie"first"came up with the idea of firing high-profile presenter Emma Alberici.